Geography
What made the Fertile Crescent fertile?
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Mesopotamia, the Middle East, and the Fertile Crescent can all be classified as what theme of geography?
Region
Laws
What invention allowed people to get from one place to another easier and faster?
The Wheel
What are Ziggurat's?
Temples to honor the city-states god?
What did the Rivers leave behind that made the area good for growing crops?
Silt- a rich mixture of soil and rocks
How did the Sumerian's have to modify their environment to limit the damages of flooding?
Building dams & levees
What is a city-state?
A independent mini-country and its surrounding farmland
First writing system that allowed people to record business, trade, government, etc.
Cuneiform
Mesopotamian gods were believed to control?
Nature
What did the Mesopotamians build to get water to their crops?
Irrigation canals
Which theme best represents: The Mesopotamian's wrote in Cuneiform.
Place
Sumer was made up of what type of political unit?
Independent City-states
The first civilizations developed here as well as inventions.
What is polytheism?
Belief in multiple gods